Illustrate
['ɪləstreɪt] or ['ɪləstret]
Definition
(verb.) supply with illustrations; 'illustrate a book with drawings'.
(verb.) depict with an illustration.
Inputed by Agnes--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make clear, bright, or luminous.
(v. t.) To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
(v. t.) To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
(v. t.) To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
(v. t.) To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
(a.) Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Elucidate, explain, exemplify, make clear, make plain, throw light upon.[2]. Adorn with pictures.
Checked by Elton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Elucidate, interpret, exemplify, demonstrate, represent, explain, embody,paint, image, make_clear
ANT:Obscure, misinterpret, mystify, confuse, misrepresent, darken
Editor: Pedro
Definition
v.t. to make distinguished: to make clear to the mind: to explain: to explain and adorn by pictures.—adj. (Shak.) renowned.—n. Illustrā′tion act of making lustrous or clear: act of explaining: that which illustrates: a picture or diagram.—adjs. Illus′trative Illus′tratory having the quality of making clear or explaining.—adv. Illus′tratively.—n. Illus′trator.—adj. Illus′trious morally bright distinguished: noble: conspicuous: conferring honour.—adv. Illus′triously.—n. Illus′triousness.
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- It may be worth while to illustrate some of the foregoing remarks. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- To illustrate this, I propose the following instance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is needless in my opinion to illustrate this argument by the enumeration of particulars. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Let me illustrate from another field of interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This is a difficulty which is common to conservative and radical, and if I have used three living men to illustrate the problem it is only because they seem to illuminate it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Having secured permission from the originator, we here illustrate it for the benefit of our readers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Dr. Franklin also planned a boat of this kind in 1785 and illustrated the same by sketches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At No. 8 is illustrated the preservation of liquid air by surrounding it with a vacuum in a Dewar bulb. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The process is illustrated in Figs. 252, 253 and 254. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I returned with the illustrated papers and magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One thing most desirable in connection with practically all of the lamp-socket appliances described and illustrated in this section is the very small cost of operation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How delightfully poor Coavinses (father of these charming children) illustrated the same principle! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. Plato. The Republic.
- The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The diagram, Fig. 12,[1] illustrates the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Experience, with young people, easily illustrates the possibility and value of diffusion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Geography, as often taught, illustrates the former; mathematics, beyond the rudiments of figuring, the latter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These various electrical features are diagrammatically shown in Fig. 2, which also illustrates the connection with the generating plant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This case well illustrates the spirit of our classifications. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I will give only one, as likewise illustrating one step in the separation of the sexes of plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As a practical commentary on the liberal social theory which he had just favoured me by illustrating, Mr. Fairlie's cool request rather amused me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The several views illustrating this process are made in this way, the lines of the reticulated screen being 175 to the inch. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Greater precaution than this cannot be imagined, illustrating as it does, that no effort has been spared to protect the lives of the operators. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1865 the first displays of fireworks in the United States, illustrating historical events, were made by a company in New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The kinetoscope is only a small model illustrating the present stage of the progress, but with each succeeding month new possibilities are brought into view. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Illustrating with the cellar-key. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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